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XP Home safe mode external HD prob
Name: jgoffe Date: September 15, 2005 at 17:28:44 Pacific OS: XP Home CPU/Ram: 1.25GB
Comment:
2y/o Dell can only boot to safe mode, turned off system restore a long time ago. Need to have important files (about 20GB worth of movies, pics and MP3s) to an external HD that I will soon be purchasing.
How do I get the important files to the external HD if I can only boot to safe mode and can I load the drivers for the HD in safe mode?
Name: Leith_Jones Date: September 15, 2005 at 20:17:09 Pacific
Reply:
ok man, my recommendation here is toss on a parallel install of windows toss in your XP cd if you have one... 2 years old it should have one, anyway, tosss in your OS disk and boot to it when it gives the option to install windows on this hard drive choose yes but with the folder \windowsxpfixfile or something of the sort, install it there, and back up the data
Summary: I had to repair windows but when it rebooted it booted into safe mode, complained and wanted to be restarted. When it reboots it boots back into safe mode, even if I select normal windows mode. Hel...
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